Example sentences of "would have been [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may or may not have reached it , but the fact is he did not try where as Chapman would have been flying in there . |
| 2 | It was held that Williams was not guilty , since had the facts been as he believed them to be , he would have been acting in defence of the other . |
| 3 | ‘ So , by preventing Heather from leaving , you would have been acting in her best interests as well as yours ? ’ |
| 4 | Mind , neither Noodle nor Blueboobs would have been sittin' in that room amongst troopies and other enemies , jus ' twiddlin' their thumbs , in the first place … |
| 5 | And these were the very works , The Golden Bough , Welker Psychologie which Freud 's contemporaries would have been reading in English and German . |
| 6 | Denys and Tania would have been turning in their graves . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If I had any political objectives I would have been sitting in my cantonment ( barracks ) scheming and planning , ’ Gen Beg said . |
| 8 | If the City chairman had sacked Mel Machin to bring in a John Bond or Malcolm Allison then heads really would have been shaking in wonderment at another Peter Swales masterstroke . |
| 9 | When normal people would have been lying in their beds with the covers over their heads , these MPs bounced on to our television screens debating the minutiae of the leadership election system . |
| 10 | The other women , Debbie and her friends , would have been shopping in Newbury or Hungerford , run round the boutiques , for something careless and suitable . |
| 11 | How many people would have been working in , in the old store ? |
| 12 | If I 'd been the archer , I thought , I would have been waiting in position , crouched and camouflaged , endlessly patient , arrow notched on bow . |